Here's another community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole , this time with yours truly . ;-) I decided to release this one today since it's my birthday. Don't forget to check out the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and...

Say you're demonstrating some code at a conference. What's the best way to do it? If you show only the code window, then you're counting on the audience's imagination about how the code will work (and their trust that it does!). But if you hit F5 to run...

Here's another community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole , this time with Matt Gertz. Matt still posts frequently on the VB Team blog even though he's changed roles (look at how big his name still is in our tag cloud on...

Here's another community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole , this time with Jared Parsons, a Developer on the VB Team. Jared is a great developer and loves the community. You can check out his personal blog here . You can...

Continuing the community interviews from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole , this time we interview Patrick Dengler. You can take a look at the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the home page of the Visual Basic Developer...

Reflection on .Net objects is done through System.Type and is very easy. For instance, "Dim type = GetType(System.String)" and now you can look at all the members and inheritance hierarchy of the System.String class. Reflection on COM types is also...

Bill Burrows , VB MVP, has released some great videos on the ASP.Net Dynamic Data features that were added in VS2008 SP1. What is Dynamic Data? "ASP.Net Dynamic Data provides a framework that enables you to quickly build a functional data-driven application...

Continuing the community interviews from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole , this time we interview Jonathan Aneja, VB Compiler Program Manager. Remember that you can take a look at the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit...

Bart and Lisa Simpson - well actually, Bart de Smet and I recorded an interview about the .Net Managed Languages. :) You can find that interview on the TechEd Online South Africa library page . Otherwise, you can also launch the video directly from here...

The VB Catch syntax has a unique feature: When. It allows users to filter expressions based on something other than their type. Any arbitrary code can enter a When block to decide whether or not to handle an Exception. Sub Sub1() Try DoSomeAction...

Continuing the community interviews from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole , this time we interview Lisa Feigenbaum, now a Visual Basic Community Program Manager! Cool! Remember that you can take a look at the Visual Basic Team page for...

There are a bunch of great How-Do-I videos on the http://silverlight.net site to get you started! There are four different categories of videos, and they all include Visual Basic code available for download. Silverlight 2 Basics Controls Web...

Most XSLT programmers are familiar with this XSLT transform to copy an XML file. <? xml version = " 1.0 " encoding = " utf-8 " ?> < xsl:stylesheet version = " 1.0 " xmlns:xsl = " http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform " > < xsl:output...

One of our Italian Visual Basic MVPs, Alessandro Del Sole , sent over some interview questions for the Visual Basic Team members to get our thoughts on the language and favorite features but mostly to share some of our personal interests to help you get...

Microsoft has announced the names Visual Studio 10 and .Net Framework 4.0 for the next versions of these two products! Here are a number of references where you can look to find more information about this announcement: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass...

Let's say that you've developed an application using the free Visual Studio Express Edition. Now, you want to deploy your application to the masses, and you read documentation about How to: Create or Add Deployment Projects . Here's how the topic starts...

We have quite a few trips coming up over the next couple months, and we want to connect with you while we’re on the road. Here is our plan. Let us know where we can find you. ;-) October 6-7, 2008 Software Development Conference 2008 : http:...

I once visited an ancient tower in China. A sign said "tread carefully for you bear the weight of history on your shoulders". Our guide explained that the tower was over 800 years old! Oh yes, he said, it was built 800 years ago, had burnt to the ground...

Did you know that Sara Ford just recently passed the 300 mark for her Visual Studio Tips & Tricks? Sara used to be a tester on the Visual Studio Core IDE team, and knows the IDE inside and out! I remember the first time I met Sara was 4 years ago...

Well, that was… intense. You may have noticed the lack of articles coming from my direction. I have been so buried in work, and so far behind, that when I look forwards all I see is backwards. I work, I drive home, I work some more, and it all seems...

The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is coming up next month, October 27-30 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The conference will focus on the future of the Microsoft platform. Here is the website for more information: http://www.microsoftpdc...

Here's a brief addition to my Visual Basic Around the World post ... This one's for the folks in SouthEast Asia. The TechEd MVP and Speaker dinner made it into the local Malaysian paper. You can see a copy of the article below. The theme was "Bling-tastic...

Maybe you just started a job at a company whose development is in VB. Maybe you're working with XML, or Office, and heard that VB would be the best language for this project. Or maybe you're just switching over, to understand what millions of developers...

Now you can! Expression Encoder just released an update last month allowing VB developers to use the Expression Encoder 2 SDK. Here's the announcement: http://blogs.msdn.com/expressionencoder/archive/2008/07/26/8773569.aspx Expression Encoder is...

After watching this video, you just might be convinced to try it out! VB MVP Billy Hollis demonstrates that Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is about a lot more than just pretty UI. He shows how the technology can be used in an extremely useful way...